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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the
overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence
of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a
willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may
prevail. ~ Helen
Keller

selected by Kalki

2005

I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can
come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is
something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this
world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (died 2
December 2002)

proposed by Kalki

2006

The current search for new educational funnels must be
reversed into the search for their institutional inverse:
educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each
one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning,
sharing, and caring. ~ Ivan Illich (date of death)

proposed by Kalki

2007

Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps
that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in
order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is
ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is
born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a
commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be.
And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and
allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex,
status, or belief. ~ Benazir Bhutto (became first female
Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988)

proposed by Kalki

2008

Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the
stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional
pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the
quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual
trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (date of
death)

proposed by Kalki

2009

I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can
be tied it is hospitality. A practice of
hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience,
listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and
friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for
possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ Ivan Illich

proposed by Kalki

2010

Rank or add further
suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be
used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it
used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it
used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular
desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for
use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a
connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely
apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying
one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the
first will always put the law into the service of the second. ~ Marquis de Sade
(date of death)

3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

1 Kalki 18:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

1 Zarbon 15:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no point in hiding that before the war we mostly
learned to attack, and did not pay enough attention to such an
important manoeuvre as retreat. Now we have paid for this. It
turned out that the commanders and the staff were not sufficiently
prepared to prepare and execute the retreat manoeuvre. Now, in the
second week of war, we had in fact to learn from the beginning the
most difficult art - the art of the execution of retreat. ~ Hovhannes
Bagramyan (born December 2)

3 because the art of retreat is important, whether it be for a
military tactician or merely someone who needs to escape from a
dangerous situation. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

SOURCE: The System of the International Organizations of
the Communist Countries - Page 36 by Richard Szawlowski - Law -
1976

1 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Eastern Prussia (Germany) was a battlefield during World War I
years. And right from here, on September 1, 1939, began the spark
of fire for the coming of the second world war. And in 1941,
Eastern Prussia invaded Soviet soil with a powerful military
onslaught, unleashing a grip of heavy burden, tragedy, and torture
into the Soviet pre-Baltic and also the inhabitants of Leningrad,
Pskov, and the Novgorod regions. Right from the very first days of
the second world war, Eastern Prussia was completely transformed
into a diabolic system of concentration camp strongholds for
captured military people, and became a cruel prison for the young
and females, who were brought from many European countries. In the
first place, from the Soviet Union. And, aha! Now, after the winter
of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal
hounds in their very own doghouse! ~ Hovhannes Bagramyan (born December
2)

4 because it states what happened, when Bagramyan's forces
entered the Berlin bunker, because I like the ending of this
description heavily. Especially the bit "And aha! Now, after the
winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these
royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" The comparison of the
high ranking Germans to royal hounds is very powerful and just as
the German shepherd was slain, so was its master. And in its very
own doghouse no less. A magnificent and enthralling quote, but it
might be best if trimmed, a matter of personal preference to just
"And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the
descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" but
still great either way. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

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